Review: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Posted on 23 May 2008 | 6 Comments

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Indie Rock

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REVISION
The original version of this review is dead. If you really want to read it check Google’s cached pages or something. Basically I blasted Death Cab For Cutie and their new record Narrow Stairs as a record that I couldn’t really get into it at all. After further inspection (however) I’m finding that not to be the case entirely.

I wasn’t a huge fan of their last album, Plans despite loving We Have The Facts…, The Photo Album, and Transatlanticism so I was eager to hear what the band had in store for Narrow Stairs. It isn’t typical Death Cab but does retain enough of Walla and Gibbard-isms to make it instantly familiar.

Narrow Stairs is a bit noisier and a bit less genteel but there are still moments. You know, moments. Where Plans was paint-by-numbers Death Cab, this new album is like that interpreted by the likes of Van Gogh. Still, I can’t blame Death Cab for trying to shake things up a bit, it’s just too bad not everything works.

MP3 | Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Narrow Stairs
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